Combined chair and swing



L. R. SCHWARTZ COMBINED CHAIR AND SWING Dec.v 25 1923. 1,478,768

Original Filed ,March 19, 1921 Patented Dec. 25, 1923's.

UNITED STATES PAENr COMBINED CHAIR AND SWING.

Application filed March 19, 1921, Serial No. 453,723. Renewed May 4, 1923.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, Lnwis R. SCHWARTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Chairs and Swings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had there in to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in a combined chair and swing and has for its object, among otherv things to provide a device of this character that may be used as a childs chair, a high chair, a rocker or a swing, the frame of which is preferably collapsible so as to occupy the minimum space when not in use.

To these and other ends my invention consists in the combined chair and swing having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings in which like numerals of reference designate like parts in the several figures:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device when fitted up for a swing; Figure 2 is a stand for the high chair;

Figure 3 is a side elevation of one of the rockers showing a fragmentary portion of the chair assembled therewith;

Figure 4 is an elevation of the swing frame in its closed position; and

Figure 5 is a plan view of a substitute seat for the chair.

In the drawings, the reference numeral 10 designates a childs chair which may be of the ordinary construction with the excep- 40. tion that the legs 11 are provided with the tenons 12 at the bottom ends thereof, and the seat 13 is so arranged therein as to be separable and the seat 14; substituted therefor. As shown in Figure 1, this chair may be used as an ordinary childs chair, the tenons 12 resting upon the floor.

To adapt it for use as a high chair, I provide a stand 15, each of the legs 16 of which has a socket 17 in the upper end thereof into which the tenons 12 are inserted, thus 50 forming an extension of the legs 11.

F or use as a rocking chair, the rockers 18 are provided which are of the usual form and fixed thereto are the auxiliary legs 19 each having a socket 20 in the upper end, 55 into which the tenons 12 are inserted when the rockers are assembled therewith.

The swing frame is constructed with up-, rights 21 that are connected at the bottom by the tie bar22 and at the top by a similar 60 tie bar 23. `The tie bar 22 is hinged to one of the uprights 21 by the hinge 24 and secured to the other upright by a locking device such as a stud or screw 25, and the tie bar 23 is secured to the uprights by the 65 hinges 26 and 27, one being upon the outside of the uprights and ythe other on the inside.

In Figure 1 this frame is shown in its set-up position and in Figure 1 in its knockdown position, the several hinges providing convenient means for folding the parts one upon the other.

Chains 28 or similar mechanism, connected with the chair upon each side thereof in a well known manner, by hooks 29 and 75 to the tie bar 23 by similar hooks 30 provide a convenient means for suspending the chair so that it may be used as a swing in a well known manner.

Vithin the scope of the appended claims the details of this invention may be materially modified and I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction described,

`What I claim as new and desire to secure by `Letters Patent, is: y

1. A device of the character described,

` comprising a collapsible frame constructed with uprights, a tie bar near the tops thereof and hinged to each of said uprights, a tie bar hinged to one of said uprights near the lower end thereof and separably secured to the other of said uprights; a chair, and

means for movably connecting said chair to said upper tie bar.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a swing frame having two uprights with a base portion at the bottom of each,

a tie bar hinged to one of said uprights near the bottom thereof whereby the same may be folded against the upright to which it is hinged, means for separehly securing the free end o said tie bar to the other upright, and a tie bar hinged to both of said uprights near the upper Vends thereof, one of said hinges being upon the outside of one of said uprights and the other upon the inside of the other upright. 10

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto aiiixed my signature. 

